WV PSC Stays PATH Procedural Schedule

The state Public Service Commission is giving the parties involved in a multistate power line case until November 17th to make their final responses on whether the project’s application should be dismissed.
The deadline was included in an order issued by the PSC on Tuesday.

The Maryland Public Service Commission had dismissed an application by developers of the Potomac-Appalachian Transmission Highline, or PATH, to build a 20-mile stretch of the line in that state.

That decision prompted staff lawyers in
West Virginia and Virginia to request that applications in their states be dismissed. The lawyers argued the line would start in West Virginia, but have no ending point.
In response, PATH has said it’s willing to delay final decisions on the $1.9 billion project until January 2011.